Ed Perlstein, who has archived collections by Nick Gravenites, Spencer Dryden, Steve Keyser (John Cipollina’s manager) and others, and who currently possesses John Cipollina’s personal tapes, was given the approval of John’s sister, Antonia, to share John’s live and studio outtake recordings in the interest of keeping his music alive for future generations.  Steve Keyser, who recorded most of John's live shows with several different bands while he was his manager, has allowed Ed to digitize his master cassettes, and to share them with John’s fans and collectors.

Charlie Kaiser has recently given us access to his soundboard masters.  He was the Front Of House soundman and recording engineer for virtually all of John's bands from about 1983 until his passing. This included Thunder and Lightning, Dinosaurs, Terry and The Pirates, Problem Child, and any of the spinoff bands.


Copperhead
Hollywood Palladium,
Hollywood, CA
April 28th, 1972

Source: Sony ECM 22P's > Sony TC-770 Reel Master > ??? > CDR (very low gen) - recorded by Harvey Kaslow and Craig Todd
Extraction: CDR > Eac > flac 16
Lineage: Flac 16 > iZotope RX 10 Advanced > iZotope Neutron 4 > CD Wav > Flac 16


01   Kibitzer
02   Highway #9
03   Spin Spin
04   Wang Dang Do
05   Rider >
06   Cobra
07   Keeper Of The Flame
08   Drunken Irish Setter
09   Pete's Instrumental
10   Bigelow 6-9000
11   Roller Derby Star



John Cipollina - guitars, vocals
Gary Philippet - vocals, guitars, organ
Jim McPherson    - vocals, piano, bass, percussion
David Weber -     drums, percussion
Pete Sears - bass, keyboards



Notes:

- The tape flip has been tidied up.
- A number of level adjustments have been made.
- Some eq to take the bass down a notch or two.



Source provided by Steve Keyser
Extraction by Ed Perlstein  www.musicimages.com
Pitch checked by Joe B. Jones
Files tagged by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Edited and mastered by SIRMick February 2024

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